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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 4 Released

02-05-2009, 12:30 PM

Phoronix: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 4 Released

Not only did Fedora 11 Alpha make it out the door today, but so did the fourth alpha release for Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope). Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4 continues to build upon a bleeding-edge set of Linux packages (though still tracking the Linux 2.6.28 kernel) and has installation support for the EXT4 file-system and new notification capabilities.The announcement of Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4 can be found on ubuntu-devel-announce...

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Better fonts for netbooks? Because I don't recall having font size issues.

It means that text will have the same size regardless of your monitor's dimensions and resolution. 1920x1200 resolution on a 15.4'' laptop? No problem! Your text will have the same size as on a 1280x800 monitor, but it will be *much* more readable (cleaner outlines, fewer color artifacts, more accurate shapes).

Try the same on Windows, or older versions of Ubuntu for that matter, and text will be unreadably small at 96DPI.

If this works as advertized, and if it also affects icons, window size, etc, Ubuntu will be the first distribution shipping with true resolution independence out of the box! Not even MacOS has managed to do that yet (and Windows are far behind in that regard).

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It means that text will have the same size regardless of your monitor's dimensions and resolution. 1920x1200 resolution on a 15.4'' laptop? No problem! Your text will have the same size as on a 1280x800 monitor, but it will be *much* more readable (cleaner outlines, fewer color artifacts, more accurate shapes).

Finally!!! I've been "waiting" for this for _years_ (maybe 5?) for my 1920x1200 15" laptop screen. What I do is manually boost fonts size.

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How do they know which DPI configuration is the best for the resolution being used?

And also which is the best counts per inch of a mouse using a specific resolution, could this be messed?

It uses EDID information from the monitor I believe. In my experience, this has always been flawless with LCD monitors, but I have had a lot of problems with DPI, refresh rate and resolution settings on some CRTs.